Northern Decisive Battle
Under normal circumstances, there might have been no need to call in Lin Qi at all.
Immortality had its own armed forces, enough to handle most problems.
But now it was wartime. Immortality's armed forces seemed too much like a civilian outfit, and the local customs in the Balus region were somewhat barbaric.
It was a relatively isolated mountainous region. Balus belief held that the gods lived on the highest mountain in the world.
As it happened, there was a high mountain near where they lived.
Of course, some anthropologists believed that the Balus people had gradually migrated from the hills into the mountains. Judging from their facial features, they looked nothing like the highland races that had been discovered. They more closely resembled low-altitude peoples.
As for why they had moved to live beneath the mountains, it was probably because of their beliefs, along with some other unknown reasons.
In ancient times, moving an entire tribe was no easy matter. The question of food supplies had to be considered.
The ancient world was different from the present. Before agricultural optimization, grain yields had been very low, and the large quantities of wild fruits and vegetables had not yet been domesticated.
Besides hunger and other problems, the wilderness was not a particularly comfortable place to live. It was an era filled with wild beasts, unlike the present, when people had to pay a damn fee at the zoo just to see one.
In ancient times, if people failed to secure their doors and windows at night, they might have an intimate encounter with a ferocious beast before morning.
Yet none of these difficulties had stopped the Balus people. It was quite remarkable.
According to their records, the mountain around which they lived was the sacred mountain of